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A-Level English Language & literature A2 Quiz on Theories of child language acquisition, created by Carrie Port on 07/10/2015.

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Theories of child language acquisition

Question 1 of 10

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Who created the behaviourist approach?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Noam Chomsky

  • B.F. Skinner

  • Jean Piagett

  • Katherine Nelson

  • Jean Aitchisons

Explanation

Question 2 of 10

1

Who created the innate approach?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Noam Chomsky

  • Jean Piagett

  • B.F. Skinner

  • Katherine Nelson

  • Jean Aitchison

Explanation

Question 3 of 10

1

Who created the cognitive approach?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Noam Chomsky

  • B.F. Skinner

  • Jean Aitchison

  • Katherine Nelson

  • Jean Piagett

Explanation

Question 4 of 10

1

Who suggested the idea of 4 categories?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Noam Chomsky

  • Jean Piagett

  • Jean Aitchison

  • B.F. Skinner

  • Katherine Nelson

Explanation

Question 5 of 10

1

Who suggested that children's language falls into 3 categories?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Katherine Nelson

  • Jean Piagett

  • Jean Aitchison

  • Noam Chomsky

  • B.F. Skinner

Explanation

Question 6 of 10

1

Which theory suggested children use labelling, packaging and semantic errors?

Select one of the following:

  • Behaviourist approach

  • Innate approach

  • Cognitive approach

  • 4 categories

  • View on holophrastic stage

Explanation

Question 7 of 10

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Which theory suggested that children's first words consist of naming things, actions, describing, personal & social)?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Behaviourist theory

  • Cognitive theory

  • Innate theory

  • View on holophrastic stage

  • 4 categories

Explanation

Question 8 of 10

1

Which theory uses ideas that the child understands i.e. time, space, numbers?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Cognitive theory

  • Behaviourist theory

  • Innate theory

  • 4 categories

  • View on the holophrastic stage

Explanation

Question 9 of 10

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Which theory suggests the human brain is ready for language, when children are exposed to speech, they pick it up naturally and begin to work out the underlying rules themselves?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Behaviourist theory

  • Cognitive theory

  • Innate theory

  • View on the holophrastic stage

  • 4 categories

Explanation

Question 10 of 10

1

Which theory suggested that children learn to speak by copying the utterances heard around them?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Behaviourist theory

  • Innate theory

  • Cognitive theory

  • 4 categories

  • View on the holophrastic stage

Explanation

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